ENGL 350

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Writing about Literature, Text, and Culture

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Credit: 3 hours.

Writing-intensive, variable-topic course designed to improve English majors' ability to produce clear, well-organized, analytically sound and persuasively argued essays relevant to English studies. Introduces students to research techniques through the examination of critical texts appropriate to the course topic.

Credit is not given for ENGL 300 and ENGL 350. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement; one year of college literature or consent of instructor. For majors only.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Advanced Composition

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ENGL 350 class schedule data for fall 2024
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
71519	Lecture-Discussion	E	1:00PM -1:50PM	MWF	36 English Building	McNulty, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Writing Lit, Text & Culture Section Info: FA24 ENGL 350 - Writing Literature, Text & Culture - Tess McNulty - Literature Now - Decades after a literary period has concluded (like, say Modernism or the Victorian era), critics may struggle to grasp its major features. But it’s hard, in a different way, to comprehend literary creation in real time. In this class, we will take up the challenge of understanding the present moment, by addressing “Literature Now”: works of literary writing that have achieved prominence—or cultural significance—during approximately the last three to five years. Together, we will survey some of this writing’s most recently celebrated practitioners (Fosse, Ernaux, Adjei-Brenya, Kitamura, etc.) while also attending to its emerging forms (Instagram poetry, fanfiction, genre fiction, the graphic novel). We will consider the institutional and historical forces that reshape literary writing’s composition (globalization/translation, conglomeration, social media, Chat GPT). And we will ask what this work can reveal about the way we live now. The course will also focus, particularly, on helping students hone the skill of writing literary critical essays. Through hands on lessons, we’ll walk through every step of the process, from close reading, researching, and outlining, to crafting and structuring compelling arguments; we’ll also address the unique challenges (and excitements!) of writing about new and very recent texts. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).
71515	Lecture-Discussion	F	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	219 David Kinley Hall	McKinney, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Writing Lit, Text & Culture Section Info: FA24 ENGL 350 - Writing Literature, Text, & Culture - Charlesia McKinney - Black Women and Pop Culture - This course illuminates Black women's cultural production in the U.S. We will examine popular culture as a reflection of societal beliefs and values that are inevitably shaped by systems of power. Rooted in Black feminist theories, our analysis will regard the audience and the artist, particularly through rhetorics of emotion: How do our feelings influence the media we engage and ignore? What does popular culture teach us about ourselves and others? What can we learn by centering analyses of pleasure, love, delight, and desire? Students will practice reading and analyzing various texts across the semester – fairy tales, non-fiction essays, music videos, magazine covers, poems, journal articles, etc. and will create multimodal texts such as playlists, cultural critiques, podcasts or presentations. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).
71517	Lecture-Discussion	X	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	127 English Building	Baron, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Degree Notes: Advanced Composition course. Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Writing Lit, Text & Culture Section Info: FA24 ENGL 350 - Writing Literature, Text, & Culture - Iryce Baron - Brexit and National Memory in Contemporary Britain - In Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, Dumbledore introduces Harry to the Pensieve, a magical font which serves as the repository of memories that can be easily stored, retrieved and re-examined at will. But as Harry quickly learns, memory is not a fixed entity that paves the way to a clear understanding of the past. Instead, memory can be elusive, it can be mutiplistic and it can be tweaked or completely altered. What attributes then constitute a unified national memory and how is it informed by social class, by race and by gender? How do writers transpose memory into fiction and how reliable are these works? In this course, we’ll examine the rise of contemporary fiction in Britain as a lens through which social progress and diversity can either be seen as a flourishing or flagging political standard. We’ll determine whether British citizens have prospered from modern Socialist policies which are theoretically racially and cuturally inclusice, or if welfare reform forced Britain to lose its edge in the world market, which it is now trying to recapture by a renewal of political platforms based on, educational elitism, neoconservatism, capitalist enterprise and white nationalist constructs of racial purity. Our thematic anchor will be the importance of individual and collective memory to define social progress or to incite class and racial war. Through the medium of memory, we’ll focus our attentions on the history of class and identity politics in Britain over the last three decades. We’ll explore whether the future lies with traditional parties such as the Tories, Labour and the Liberal Democrats, or with Alt-Right groups such as the British National Party, English Defence League, UKIP and the new Reclaim Party. We’ll ponder what it means to be British in the 21st century and how the Brexit conflict has reframed the national identity of Britons out of fragmented white Anglocentic literary and political memories. And finally we’ll consider whether Britain has become an enlightened utopia where social mobility and racial equality is universal or whether it’s transforming into a dark dystopian zone, in which only those powered by money, status and ancient family ties have any rights. Students are expected to attend class regularly and to actively participate in class discussions. In addition, students will be required to give oral reports and to write four papers. Novels may include: Never Let Me Go, Atonement, The Remains of the Day, Small Island, Hamnet, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and The Sense of An Ending. TV Series and films may include: The Crown and The Crimes of Grindelwald. Restriction(s): Restricted to English or Creative Writing major(s) or minor(s).